acts out

The phrase “acts out” has 2 syllables: acts out

It's pronounced as /ækts aʊt/


What is synonym and antonym for acts out?

In the thesaurus, “acts out” has 14 synonyms and 24 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for acts out along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for acts out

  • acts up
  • carries on
  • cuts up
  • disobeys
  • fools around
  • horses around
  • misbehaves
  • misconducts
  • raises cain
  • raises hell
  • rebels
  • roughhouses
  • runs riot
  • shows off

Antonyms for acts out

  • acquits
  • acts
  • bears
  • checks
  • collects
  • complies
  • comports
  • composes
  • conducts
  • conforms
  • constrains
  • contains
  • controls
  • curbs
  • demeans
  • deports
  • handles
  • inhibits
  • moves
  • obeys
  • quiets
  • quits
  • represses
  • restrains

Example Sentences

  • The child often acts out when he is feeling ignored.
  • He acts out his emotions dramatically in front of an audience.
  • During the rehearsal, the actor acts out the scene with great energy.
  • The character acts out his frustration through loud and exaggerated gestures.
  • When he doesn't get his way, he acts out to gain attention.

On this page you'll find 38 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to acts out, such as: acquits, acts, acts up, bears, carries on, checks, collects.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

hams

takes out

  • abstracts
  • accompanies
  • acts out
  • airs
  • annihilates
  • assassinates
  • blots out
  • blows away
  • budges
  • bumps off
  • butchers
  • carries off
  • claims
  • clears
  • courts
  • croaks
  • cuts
  • cuts down
  • dates
  • demounts
  • destroys
  • dislocates
  • dislodges
  • dispatches
  • displaces
  • disturbs
  • does away with
  • does in
  • draws
  • draws off
  • draws out
  • eliminates
  • eradicates
  • escorts
  • executes
  • expresses
  • exterminates
  • extracts
  • fells
  • gets
  • ices
  • kills
  • knocks off
  • liquidates
  • looses
  • massacres
  • moves
  • murders
  • neutralizes
  • offs
  • pulls
  • puts away
  • releases
  • removes
  • rubs out
  • sees
  • shifts
  • shoots
  • shoots down
  • slaughters
  • slays
  • smites
  • snuffs
  • states
  • terminates
  • transfers
  • transposes
  • unleashes
  • ventilates
  • vents
  • voices
  • whacks
  • wipes out
  • withdraws
  • woos
  • zaps

impersonates

  • acts
  • acts out
  • apes
  • clowns
  • coacts
  • copies
  • costars
  • depicts
  • does
  • dramatizes
  • enacts
  • hams
  • imitates
  • interprets
  • masquerades
  • mimes
  • mimics
  • mocks
  • monkeys
  • overacts
  • overplays
  • pantomimes
  • parodies
  • performs
  • personates
  • playacts
  • plays
  • portrays
  • renders
  • represents
  • role-plays
  • roleplays
  • takes on
  • travesties
  • underplays

acts

  • accomplishments
  • achievements
  • actions
  • activities
  • acts out
  • administers
  • adventures
  • affairs
  • affectations
  • affects
  • airs
  • amendments
  • apes
  • appearances
  • appears
  • assumes
  • attainments
  • behaves
  • betrayals
  • bills
  • bits
  • blue laws
  • bluffs
  • bylaws
  • camouflages
  • canons
  • capitularies
  • carries on
  • charades
  • cloaks
  • clowns
  • co-actions
  • coactions
  • coacts
  • colors
  • commandments
  • commands
  • common law
  • conceals
  • constitutions
  • controls
  • copies
  • costars
  • counterfeits
  • deal
  • dealings
  • deceits
  • deceptions
  • decrees
  • deed
  • deeds
  • depicts
  • dictates
  • directives
  • directs
  • disguises
  • dissembles
  • dissimulates
  • dissimulations
  • does
  • doings
  • double crosses
  • double-dealings
  • dramatizes
  • duplicities
  • edicts
  • emprises
  • enactments
  • enacts
  • encyclicals
  • enterprises
  • events
  • excuses
  • experiences
  • exploits
  • facades
  • fakeries
  • fakes
  • falsities
  • feats
  • feels
  • feigns
  • feints
  • fiats
  • forges
  • frauds
  • fronts
  • functions
  • glosses
  • goings-on
  • ground rules
  • guides
  • guiles
  • guises
  • hams
  • handiworks
  • handles
  • happenings
  • hints
  • images
  • imitates
  • impersonates
  • impersonations
  • implies
  • infidelities
  • influences
  • initiatives
  • insinuates
  • interprets
  • laws
  • legislations
  • lets on
  • looks
  • makes
  • makes believe
  • malingers
  • manages
  • maneuvers
  • masks
  • masquerades
  • matters
  • measures
  • mimes
  • mimics
  • mocks
  • monkeys
  • moves
  • numbers
  • operates
  • operations
  • ordinances
  • overacts
  • overplays
  • oversees
  • pans out
  • pantomimes
  • parodies
  • perfidies
  • performances
  • performs
  • personae
  • personas
  • personates
  • playacts
  • plays
  • portrayals
  • portrays
  • poses
  • pretences
  • pretends
  • pretenses
  • pretexts
  • procedures
  • proceeding
  • proceedings
  • professes
  • prohibitions
  • proscriptions
  • put-ons
  • puts on
  • reacts
  • recalls
  • redounds
  • regulates
  • regulations
  • renders
  • represents
  • resembles
  • responds
  • restrictions
  • results
  • role-plays
  • roleplays
  • routines
  • rules
  • rulings
  • runs
  • schticks
  • seems
  • semblances
  • serves
  • shams
  • shows
  • shticks
  • shtiks
  • signatures
  • simulates
  • sounds
  • statutes
  • steps
  • stunts
  • suggests
  • supervises
  • sways
  • tactics
  • takes
  • takes effect
  • takes hold
  • takes on
  • things
  • travesties
  • treacheries
  • treasons
  • tricks
  • turns
  • underplays
  • undertakings
  • works

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